Jan van Dijk

Jan van Dijk is an Associate Professor in the Elementary Processes in Gas Discharges group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He holds an MSc (1996) and PhD (2001) in Applied Physics from TU/e, followed by postdoctoral research at TU/e, the University of Illinois (USA), and Keio University (Japan). He received a NWO VENI grant in 2003 and is now leading projects like Plasma Power (2021–2027) and the Kinetic-Fluid Hybrid Plasma Model (2020–2024). His research focuses on plasma modeling, electromagnetic fields, transport phenomena, and C++ code design.

• Principal investigator on hybrid plasma models.
• Co-developed the LXCat data platform for plasma science.

Research interests include low-temperature plasmas, biomedical applications, and open-source tools for plasma simulation. He contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals through plasma-based technologies.

• Award: NWO VENI Grant (2003)

Teaching includes courses like Advanced Computational Fluid and Plasma Dynamics, Astrophysics, and Mathematical Physics. He has supervised 70 academic works and actively participates in conferences and invited talks.